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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"End times"”.
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Christian Zionism and doctrinal islamophobia: Expediting the end times
… rhetoric to further their politico-religious agenda, making it a byproduct of their politics in their expedition to the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.
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On the Shores of Education: Urban Bodies, Architectural Repetitions, and the Mythic Space of End Times
… and "No Child Left Behind," to trace the enduring connection between philosophies and practices of education and sacrificial journeys of descent and emergence. This thematic work of repetition, birth and death, is not so much knowable as it is the privileged way in which we enact and …
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Trauma Unit volumes: Is there a relationship with weather, sporting events and week/month-end times? An audit at an urban tertiary trauma unit in Cape Town
… regarding public holidays and long weekends were obtained for the relevant shifts. Average daily attendances for interpersonal violence (IPV)-related injuries and motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) were compared across the various external factors described. Poisson regression models were …
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Task Scheduling and Productivity
… research aims to describe general scheduling tendencies, evaluate the impact considering task end-times have on scheduling tendencies, and to assess links between scheduling tendencies and productivity. Throughout four studies, findings indicated that participants consistently preferred to …
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Scheduling Task With State -Dependent Deadlines
… algorithm: The algorithm determines the start times and end times of feasible intervals of every job so that the job will never miss its deadline if the job executes from start to completion in one of its feasible intervals. When the future values of job deadlines are unknown, it is not …
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Hal Lindsey's <i>The Late, Great Planet Earth</i> and the Rise of Popular Premillennialism in the 1970s
<p>How people think about the end of the world greatly affects how they live in the present. This thesis examines how popular American thought about “the end of the world” has been greatly affected by Hal Lindsey’s 1970 popular prophecy book <em>The Late, Great Planet Earth</em>. <em>LGPE </em>sold …
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Storied navigation : toward media collection-based storytelling
… story, rather than solely by explicit start and end times. Storied Navigation uses textual annotations expressed in unconstrained natural language, using parsing and Commonsense reasoning to deduce possible connections between the narrative intent of the storyteller, and descriptions of events …
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Disaggregation and classification of residential water events from high-resolution smart water meter data using unsupervised machine learning methods
… main entrance to the home to identify start and end times of water events. k-means clustering, an unsupervised machine learning method, then categorized these water events based on information collected from the appliance end-uses. The use of unsupervised learning substantially reduces the …
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Muhammad Speaking of the Messiah: Jesus in the Hadith Tradition
… to earth) and his messianic roles toward the End Times. It is anticipated that the work will contribute to further studies about correlations of ‘Īsā and Muhammad in Islamic and Christian theology, as well as to interreligious examinations of the Hadīth traditions.
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The Missiology of I. T. Tichenor with Implications on Contemporary Southern Baptist North American Missions
… ecclesiology, the cultural mandate, and the end times are examined. Chapter 4 presents the missiology of I. T. Tichenor in regard to the Great Commission, the use of demographics, cooperation, church planting, church planting missionaries, indigenous leadership, the church building, and use …
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Stochastic Optimization Powered by Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming for Communications Network Scheduling
… the scheduled tracking interval start and end times are continuous variables, while the index information for selecting antenna options are discrete variables. It is usually very hard to find a particular solver that can handle these mixed-integer models without spending lots of effort in …
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Human resource management in project portfolios : architecting an allocation process
… model resource uncertainties, risks or interdependencies, of which 85% conceded these variables should be addressed. Given the survey results and given that PPM methods were borne of Markowitz's Modern Portfolio Theory, this thesis sought to frame the human resource allocation problem as a …
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"More desired than our owne salvation" : the roots of American Christian affinity for the State of Israel.
… theology. The tradition openly constructed friends (Jews) as well as enemies (Muslims and Roman Catholics), while cultivating an occidentocentric discourse that discounted Eastern Christians. The tradition's most visible and direct impulses are manifested in Christian Zionism, understood as …
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New Bolivians, New Bolivia: Pentecostal Conversion and Neoliberal Transformation in Contemporary Bolivia
… diminished relationship with the state. To this end, I examine two intersecting processes of change central to the understanding what is at stake for Bolivian Pentecostals: (1) personal transformation as effected and marked by ""born-again"" conversion; and (2) social transformation as promised …
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Reflection-aware static regression test selection
… results also showed that static RTS can be sometimes unsafe, missing to select some tests that dynamic RTS selects, and reflection was the only cause of unsafety among the evaluated projects. In this thesis, we investigate five techniques—three purely static techniques and two hybrid …
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Eschatological Thought and Religiosity Among Christians: Patterns And Relationships
In contrast to research on fundamentalism and death anxiety, there has been very little empirical research on the relationship between a person's eschatology, religious thought and behavior. This study attempts to identify associations between eschatology, religiosity, locus of control, death …
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Drawing Apocalypse: Architectural Representation in the Nuclear Age and the Imagination of the End
… fictions projecting the aftermath of a world-ending atomic war. These fostered an atmosphere in which the possibility of the world’s end was not only real but imminent; a nuclear apocalyptic cloud which permeated almost all facets of cultural production, including that of architecture. This …
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Optimizing School Operations
… often be solved on a shoestring budget, and tend to intersect with complex policy questions. For instance, school transportation is both a complex combinatorial problem, and has served as a vector of racial and socioeconomic integration since the 1970s. This thesis seeks to develop practical, …
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Armband EMG-based Lifting Detection and Load Classification Algorithms using Static and Dynamic Lifting Trials
… provide resources for recording the start and end times of lifting tasks performed by individual workers. As a result, automatic detection of lift starts and ends is required for practical purposes. Occupational lifting styles vary depending on the asymmetry angle, which is the degree of …
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Song of the Morrígan for Chamber Orchestra, Cries of Revelation for Chorus, Soloists and Large Instrumental Ensemble, and Fragments of a Dream for 5.1 Surround Electronics
<p>This dissertation consists of three independent musical compositions that represent a diversity of my compositional interests. The first work is titled Song of the Morrígan and is written for chamber orchestra with piano and two percussionists. The Morrígan is a figure from Irish mythology, a …